Online Minnesota Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries

Online Minnesota Death Indexes

Minnesota Death Index 1908-2002 (requires payment) part of an Ancestry subscription, which also includes...
- Minnesota Marriage Index 1958-2001 (except 1996) (requires payment) also included: MN Divorce Index 1970-1995
- Minnesota Birth Index 1935-2002 (requires payment)

Minnesota Historical Society Death Certificate Search 1904-2001 (index is free - you can order the death certificates for a fee)
Minnesota Veterans Graves Registration Index Search 1857-1975 (most from 1927-1969) not a complete listing of all MN veteran burials

Minnesota Obituaries Archive - Recent (you can obtain copies of individual obituaries online for a fee) includes: Cloquet Pine Journal (5/17/2006-Current); Duluth News-Tribune (1/1/1995-Current); Minneapolis and St. Paul Star Tribune (1/21/1986-Current); St. Cloud Times (2/4/1999-Current); St. Paul Pioneer Press (3/25/1988-Current); Two Harbors - Lake County News-Chronicle (5/11/2006-Current)

Clay County Death Record Index 1872-1980
Dakota County Obituaries & Cemeteries obituary index covers about 1860s-present; includes many other genealogy records
Dakota County Newspaper Index 1980-present includes obituaries
Hennepin County...
- Star Tribune: Newspaper of the Twin Cities - Obituaries 1/21/1986-Current (you can obtain copies of individual obituaries online for a fee)
- Hennepin County: St. Mary's Cemetery, Minneapolis - Burials 1874-1894 (Catholic cemetery)
- Hennepin County: Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis - Burial Search 1872-present
Morrison County Death Index Pre-1907 starts with the 1870s
Olmsted County Genealogy Records Index includes cemetery burials, Rochester Post Bulletin newspaper articles and obituaries, probate records and more
Otter Tail County Search Index includes cemetery records and a newspaper index, plus Perham births & deaths 1882-1900
Pennington County Historical Society Obituaries & Cemeteries Search also includes some listings for Red Lake County & Marshall County
Ramsey County: St. Paul Pioneer Press Obituaries 3/25/1988-Current (you can obtain copies of individual obituaries online for a fee) also includes Star Tribune obituaries 1/21/1986-Current
Red Lake County: St. Joseph Area Catholic Cemeteries Database includes cemeteries in the following places: Red Lake Falls, Huot, Terrebonne, Brooks, Dorothy, Plummer
St. Louis County...
- St. Louis County Death Records Index 1870-2000
- St. Louis County: Duluth Public Library Obituary Index indexes obitiuaries from the Duluth News-Tribune & Duluth Herald newspapers 1962-present
- St. Louis County: Hibbing Cemetery Database PDF files
Scott County: Calvary Cemetery Burials, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Jordan, MN
Sibley County Gravestones Database (work in progress)
Stearns County: St. Cloud Daily Times Obituary Index 1998-present
Steele County: Dalby Database - Cemetery Records cemetery and other records for Steele, Rice & other nearby counties
Todd County Cemeteries (partial listing)
Wabasha County Cemetery Records Index

Minnesota Cemetery Inscription Index, Select Counties (requires payment) Indexes cemeteries in Blue Earth, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Goodhue, Hennepin, Le Sueur, McLeod, Olmsted, Rice, Scott, Sibley, Steele & Waseca counties, and also in the cities of St. Paul & Winnebago Minnesota; and Beloit, Illinois. (more than 600,000 entries) at Ancestry (Look in the Steele County section above for a free version of this database.)

Minnesota Vital Records Indexes & People Finding Aids

Online Minnesota Death Records & Indexes

A Genealogy Records Guide